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Vale Emeritus Professor Elspeth Probyn FAHA 1958 – 2025

The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Elspeth Probyn FAHA.

Elected to the Academy in 2002, Elspeth was internationally recognised for her work in cultural and gender studies. She was especially noted for innovative contributions to theories of identities and subjectivity, and her original and cross-disciplinary research.

Her publications spanned the fields of gender, media and cultural studies, philosophy, cultural geography, anthropology and critical psychology.

We extend our sincere condolences to her family, friends and colleagues. She will be greatly missed.

An obituary is being prepared by the Fellowship and will be available in due course.

 

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Our Fellows, current and those who have died, have contributed extensively to the rich Australian humanities community. When an Academy Fellow dies, we honour their impact by publishing an obituary by another Fellow who has had a long and close association with them.

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